Joshua Ballanco
02-Nov-12 14:30
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Come hear a tale of how one programmer wanted to write a delegation library. Knowing that the wise elders have always stated "it's not true until you measure it", the programmer decided to benchmark the alternatives. But this was no ordinary benchmark. Down paths winding and m...

29-Sep-11 16:20
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Joshua Ballanco
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Pop quiz, hot shot! What is the value of this Ruby expression: "2 + 3"? What if I told you that somewhere earlier I had done this: "class Fixnum; alias :+ :*; end"? Changes everything, right? We're all familiar with Ruby's open classes. For many of us, they're one of the facet...

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